Circulating Books

The best way to locate a book on your author is to type the author's name into the online catalog Most of the circulating books on your author will be found in the 800 section.

810 American Literature
813 Fiction Criticism
818 Individual Writers

You may be able to find a biography on your author in the 921 section of the library.

Reference

There are many books in the reference 800 section on literature and literary criticism. Reference books on authors are located in the 920 section. Ask the librarian for a handout to guide you in your search.

Databases

Books and Authors: A Gale Resource. Provides overviews of authors and their works.
Biography Resource Center: Part of Gale Resources. Provides biographical information.
Bloom's Literary Reference Center: Provides biographies of authors and criticisms of literary works.
Contemporary Literary Criticism: Part of the Gale Resources. Provides literary criticism articles for the authors' works.
Gale Virtual Library: E-books contains the following resources: Concise Major 21st Century Writers, Feminism in Literature, American Eras, American Decades, Encyclopedia of World Biographies.
Ebsco Research Databases: Literary Reference Center Plus, Literary Reference Center: This is a trial database.
Infobase Publishing E-books: Includes books on the following authors: Angelou, Baldwin, Fitzgerald,Hemingway, McCarthy, McCullers, Melville, Morrision, O'Conner, Porter, Roth, Steinbeck, Tan, Vonnegut, Walker, Wright
Literary Resource Center: Part of the Gale Resources. Full text criticism, overviews, and biographies.
Scribner's Writers Online: Contains resources for American and writers from around the world.
Twayne's Authors Online: Contains e-books on authors and their works

Literary Criticism on the Web

Literary Criticism Collection: From the Internet Public Library
American Literature Links: An index of links. Maintained by Rutgers University.
LitLinks: Provides links to biographies and research resources on the web. Maintained by Bedford/St. Martin's University
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. Maintained by California State University
Schoolwork.ugh: Biographies and critical interpretations.
Smoop Literature: Biographies and research guides